Corporate Partners

Altria

In 2009, Altria committed $600,000 for water conservation, sustainable agriculture, and pollution projects in the Chesapeake, Great Leaks, and Delaware estuaries. The projects improve water quality by investing in effective conservation and restoration practices, and to facilitate and accelerate local implementation of the most innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective strategies for restoring and protecting water quality and vital habitats. On-the-ground work has included harvesting rainwater for reuse on poultry farms, developing homeowner incentive programs for residential storm water management, and restoring 500 acres of wetlands on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Anheuser-Busch / Budweiser

Now in its 15th year of supporting NFWF, Anheuser-Busch has helped to enable wildlife habitat restoration, improve public access, educate future leaders in conservation, and conserve the nation’s outdoor heritage. One program, “Help Budweiser Help the Outdoors,” has generated over $8.7 million since inception to support important conservation efforts throughout the United States and Canada including projects that help protect critical waterfowl breeding habitat in North and South Dakota, restore important quail habitat in California and the Southeastern and Southwestern US, improve deer management practices in several eastern states, and restore important wintering habitat for elk in the Rocky Mountains.

ArcelorMittal

ArcelorMittal has committed $2.1 million over three years to sponsor the Great Lakes Watershed Restoration Program. The program helps restore the ecological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin by supporting collaborative approaches to restoration of wetlands and other critical fish and wildlife habitat. Outcomes of the program include: restoration of more than 8,000 acres of wetland, shoreline and upland habitat; restoration of fish passage to more than 400 stream miles; and, training and educating of more than 6.500 students, teachers, volunteers, and residents.

Bank of America

Bank of America offers a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation branded credit card. Every purchase made with this card helps NFWF to carry out our mission of sustaining, restoring, and enhancing the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Bass Pro Shops

Bass Pro Shops and Johnny Morris Foundation have committed $5 million over five years to launch the More Fish Campaign that helps support fish habitat protection, enhancement, and restoration projects nationally, with particular emphasis on engaging agencies, anglers, and other conservation groups at Table Rock Lake and the White River watershed in Arkansas and Missouri to improve fish habitat and water quality.

Bed Bath & Beyond

In 2008 Bed Bath & Beyond began a partnership with NFWF where $1 from the sale of reusable shopping bags is donated to NFWF to support marine and coastal programs across the country, from restoring water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound to protecting sea turtles and seabirds from harmful marine debris.

BP

For more than seven years, BP Alaska has partnered with NFWF and provided support for vital research on Beaufort Sea polar bear populations in Alaska and Canada to determine their distribution, use of sea ice, den locations, impacts from noise, and population numbers. BP has also helped to establish the Alaska Sea Duck Fund to monitor imperiled sea duck populations, with an emphasis on the eiders. In 2008, BP contributed to the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Fund.

Chevron

In 2008, Chevron Alaska helped to support the development of non-invasive photo-identification techniques of the Cook Inlet beluga whales in order to identify individuals and get a more accurate population estimate. Since the Cook Inlet beluga whales were listed as endangered species in fall 2008, this program is vital to NOAA and other partners to help develop recovery plans for the species.

ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips and NFWF have worked together for more than 17 years. Our most recent partnership, the ConocoPhillips SPIRIT of Conservation Migratory Bird Program, was launched in 2005 and is a focused and strategic initiative to conserve threatened birds and their habitats around the world. Over the past four years, the SPIRIT program has provided funding for 39 projects in ten states and five countries. More than 84,000 acres of priority bird habitats have been protected or enhanced as a result of these awards. In addition, ConocoPhillips in Alaska has partnered with NFWF for the past six years to support polar bear research and Cook Inlet beluga whale conservation projects.

Covanta Energy

Fishing for Energy is a partnership consisting of the Covanta Energy, NFWF, NOAA and Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. which provides a no-cost solution to fishermen to dispose of old, derelict or unusable fishing gear and works to reduce the amount of derelict fishing gear in and around coastal waterways.

Launched in 2008, the partnership continues to work closely with state and local agencies, community and fisherman groups, and local ports to install bins at convenient and strategic locations where fishermen can easily dispose of gear. When these bins fill up, the gear is collected and transported to a nearby Schnitzer Steel facility where the metal is recovered for recycling and rope or nets are sheared for easier disposal. From there it is brought to a nearby Covanta Energy-from-Waste facility where the gear is converted into clean, renewable electricity for local communities. Over 300 tons or 700,000 pounds of gear has been collected to-date.

ExxonMobil

Since its launch in 1995, ExxonMobil has invested in the Save The Tiger Fund’s vision for tiger conservation. The Fund has supported 300 projects in 13 out of the 14 tiger range countries with $15 million through a partnership between ExxonMobil Foundation, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, and NFWF. The Fund is one of the largest corporate commitments ever to save an endangered species. It has taken a multifaceted approach to tiger conservation that serves as an umbrella for the preservation of habitat and biodiversity. This partnership supports field studies to develop better tiger management plans, tiger conservation education programs, efforts to curtail poaching and illegal trade of tiger parts, efforts to resolve human-tiger conflicts, and activities that protect and restore tiger habitats.

FedEx

Through EarthSmart Outreach, FedEx has identified 12 U.S. cities where it will fund urban conservation projects in 2010 and 2011. The goal of the campaign is to transform cities to make them cleaner, more accessible and vibrant places to live and work with cleaner water and a better quality of life. Through FedEx team member engagement, the projects will restore watersheds, improve air quality, perform environmental stewardship activities, and foster community environmental education.

The Orvis Company

Since 1987, Orvis and NFWF have partnered to protect and restore native fish and wildlife habitat by raising public awareness and engaging communities in stewardship activities. The Orvis Partnership Program supports projects dedicated to the acquisition, restoration, enhancement, or long-term protection of native fish and wildlife habitat.

PG&E Corporation

Since 1999, PG&E has partnered with NFWF on the Nature Restoration Trust: Empowering Communities program that supports habitat restoration within PG&E’s service districts in California. PG&E and NFWF facilitate conservation at the local level by empowering communities to take care of native habitats and species and engaging youth in hands-on restoration.

Shell Oil Company

Since 1998, the Shell Marine Habitat Program, a partnership between NFWF and the Shell Oil Company, has supported conservation projects that benefit marine and coastal habitats and species in the Gulf of Mexico and, more recently, Long Island Sound and Alaska. Through this partnership, 171 grants have helped more than 120 organizations conserve and restore marine habitat and more than $43 million in grants and matching funds has been put to work for marine conservation. The Shell Marine Habitat Program has played a critical role in the conservation of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which is now recovering along the Texas coast. Shell also helped NFWF establish the Shell Polar Bear Fund to assist with population research on the north slope of Alaska.

Southern Company

Southern Company has been a partner of NFWF’s since 2002 with the launch of the Power of Flight Bird Conservation Fund, which protects birds through habitat and species restoration and environmental education. More than 134,000 acres of wildlife habitat have benefitted from the program. In 2004, NFWF and Southern Company embarked on another partnership, the Longleaf Legacy Program, which helps to restore and conserve the longleaf pine ecosystem and sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. Through this program, more than 29,000 acres will be planted with 8 million seedlings. In 2006, Southern Company signed on for a third program with NFWF by becoming the first corporate partner in the Five Star Restoration Grant Program that supports community-based wetland, riparian, and coastal habitat restoration. Southern Company has supported projects that collectively restored more than 10,200 acres of wetland and coastal habitat, and close to 46,000 feet of riparian buffer. All programs are implemented within the Southern Company service area of Georgia, Alabama, northwestern Florida, and southeastern Mississippi.

Syngenta

To create and restore on-farm bee habitats, the Foundation has teamed with Syngenta to launch Operation Pollinator™, a global initiative taking flight over the next four years in California, Florida and Michigan. The program will bring together university researchers, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations to help growers in these key horticultural states establish pollinator habitats by planting low-cost, nectar-rich seed mixtures on marginal land near their crops.

Walmart

Acres for America was created in 2005 as a novel way for the corporate world and the conservation community to work cooperatively to conserve vital wildlife habitat for future generations. Walmart launched the program with a commitment of $35 million over 10 years to permanently conserve at least one acre of priority wildlife habitat for every acre developed for the company’s facilities. After four years, the partnership has already surpassed Walmart’s goal by conserving three times the amount of acreage originally planned; 13 projects have been funded in 13 states and Walmart’s funds have helped to permanently conserve more than 412,000 acres of habitat. Walmart is the first major retail store to offset its land development footprint with permanently protected conservation lands.